Nowadays,the pressure to create the digital magazine that will pop out in a digital stand it seams to become a huge challenge for designers just like it was for designers back in the 60’s and 70’s when competition started to grow rapidly. Issue of Time magazine with the breast-feeding cover was the best selling issue … Continue reading →

Want to create a great cover page for your digital publication? Take a look at the George Lois design – it will help you understand the pure design. From 1962 to 1972, George Lois changed the face of magazine design with his ninety-two covers for Esquire magazine. He stripped the cover down to a graphically … Continue reading →

Worth is an American wealth management magazine for high net worth individuals. It is published on a bi-monthly basis and circulated to over 110,000 recipients. Worth was founded in 1992 as a wealth management magazine for high net worth individuals. Under its current ownership, the magazine underwent a significant redesign in the spring of 2009 … Continue reading →

W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Woman’s Wear Daily, James Brady. The magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall. Stefano Tonchi is the editor … Continue reading →

ESPN The Magazine is a bi-weekly (once every two weeks) sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in Bristol, Connecticut in the United States. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998. The main sports covered include Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, college basketball, and college … Continue reading →

One of the biggest problems that you may face creating the front page is the lack of visual factors that would be central element of the page and its anchorage. The fact is that the photography or some other visual element must be at least three times larger than any other element on the cover … Continue reading →

Cover page, magazine Wired First and most important fact – cover pages are not to be studied, you need to respond to them. The time that readers spend on the cover page is shorter and shorter, and if your sell is based on the daily struggle for readers – then your cover page should be … Continue reading →

Same photo, different newspaper, different design One of the biggest problems that you may face creating the front page is the lack of visual factors that would be central element of the page and its anchorage. You do not need any specialist or art director to know that the photography or some other visual element … Continue reading →

Cover page, magazine Wired First and most important fact – cover pages are not to be studied, you need to respond on them. The time that readers spend on the cover is shorter and shorter, and if your sale is based on daily struggle for readers – then your cover page should be designed … Continue reading →

Aston Martin DB10

Production will be strictly limited to 10 of the bespoke sports cars, developed and built by the designers, engineers and highly skilled craftspeople at Aston Martin’s Gaydon headquarters.

Architect Oscar Niemeyer

"My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine."

BACK to BASICS: Portraits

Portraits of people are one of the first elements of the photography used in newspapers.

Typography: x-heigh

In typography, x-heigh refers to the heigh of lower case letters without upper or lower parts when compared to capital letters...

Designer George Lois

“I always knew I was the most talented kid in the school, ” says George Lois of his time at Music and Art. “I was lucky to be exposed to the city’s best art education"...

BODY COPY

Newspaper typefaces require a higher legibility then typefaces used for other printed products. Newspaper are printed on a paper of lesser quality under high speed.

How to redesign 1

Good redesign is driven by a deep understanding of the editorial mission of the publication.

Headline on photographs

The eternal dilemma! Dilemma of all editors on the planet Earth – to put or not put the headline or any kind of type in the photo.